[plug] Framebuffer problem

[Peter Wright]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:34:13PM +0800, Steven Leopardi wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 12:31:40PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> You say that it says the device doesnt exist, 
> ls -la /dev/fd0 shows what? no file?   

Snipped from my original post (and quoted in yours):
> > yoda:/dev# ll fb0
> > crw-r--r--    1 root     root      29,   0 May 29 20:06 fb0
> > yoda:/dev# fbset 
> > open /dev/fb0: No such device

It's there, all right. :)

> try /dev/MAKEDEV fb
> that will make (re)create the fb devices.....

Ooooh.... I didn't know about MAKEDEV.

Well thank you for that tip anyway - not much help in solving my
original problem, but useful if you don't want to fiddle about with
mknod and device numbers.

> Cheers
> 
> Steven

thanks,
Pete.
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